At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

— Warren Ellis

Being a nun wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and the sex was shit.

— Warren Ellis

By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

— Warren Ellis

Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

— Warren Ellis

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

— Warren Ellis

Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, SOMA and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll find you. Oh, yes.

— Warren Ellis

Drinking is fun! It makes me feel horrible and sexy!

— Warren Ellis

Half the time he seems autistic, the rest of the time he's like a lizard jacked full of lithium and speed. These things do not promote love in most of us.

— Warren Ellis

He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells.

— Warren Ellis

I can't solve any problems. All I can do is try to make sure people can't avoid noticing them.

— Warren Ellis